Best Podcast in Baseball 9.10: A 'Die-Hard' Cardinals fan's epic tale of Paige, Doby, Feller & Cleveland's '48 Champs

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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'Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball', by author Luke Epplin, is a captivating read that weaves the origins, backgrounds, motivations, and legends of Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller, and Bill Veeck together just as they unify to carry Cleveland to the 1948 World Series title. It's the last World Series championship Cleveland has won. It's also one that captivated the country and signaled a history shift for Major League Baseball. Epplin grew up in Illinois, about an hour outside of St. Louis, on tales of the St. Louis Browns, and he became a "die-hard Cardinals fan," his words, watching Ozzie Smith & Co. flip through the league in the 1980s. Epplin joins BPIB host and Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss his book, the route that took him from St. Louis fan to Cleveland chronicler, and how the story of the '48 team reconnected him with baseball and resonates with the situation the game is in today. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:16.9	There was this sort of notion that in the 40s, if you walk down a street in Cleveland,
0:24.2	you could have heard a continuous broadcast of the Indians game if it was on,
0:28.9	because it would have been on so many different radios that it would have just been sort of in the air almost.
0:34.7	And I also thought that it was interesting, the role the baseball played coming back
0:37.9	from World War II, where some of these guys, they'd just gone through the depression in the war,
0:42.9	and they really sort of look to baseball as not only something to find comfort in, but something
0:49.4	to seek normalcy in. It sort of spoke to what America was. And I always thought that like this could be
0:55.7	an interesting summer for baseball because we just had COVID. And now you've got this summer where we're
1:01.5	vaccinated, we're sort of out. Baseball could serve that similar function that it served after
1:06.9	World War II as a way of sort of establishing normalcy or just symbolizing normal
1:14.2	normalcy going to a ballgame. It's in that position to do so once again.
1:21.9	Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by Clause is by design
1:25.4	of St. Louis. I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week by author and Dye. podcast and baseball brought to you by closet by design of st louis i'm st louis post dispatch baseball
1:27.6	writer derrick cool joined this week by author and diehard cardinal fan luke eplin whose new book is
1:35.5	our team and it's a book about the four personalities that came to define the 48 cleveland team
1:42.9	that won the world series sort of their interlocking lives,
1:46.4	how they laced together, you know, how some of them were rivals, and how they built this team.
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